So you're saying that the reason the British Empire conquered the world was that everyone just spontaneously decided that they were so awesome that it made sense to give them all the money and resources, and invite them to run everything?
How is it even possible to be alive in 2026 and not be aware that the rich and powerful have developed a strong tendency to go completely bonkers when the topic of "AI" comes up?
I suppose her attention is naturally focused on encryption, but the result of an untrustworthy operating system is not specific to it: Security in general becomes impossible.
From what I've seen of it Academy is remarkably bad, suffused with the same same style of bad writing and bad ideas that made Section 31 so excruciatingly painful to watch — but so many of the people complaining about it on youtube are even worse somehow.
The programme is a joint effort between government and major tech firms, including Google, Microsoft and IBM
Oh, it's just a marketing programme for US tech companies?
When I hear "AI training" what comes to mind is the careful diligence it requires of users to detect the hidden biases of current "AI", to understand its subtle limitations as well as the obvious ones, to avoid being deceived by its lies, and to learn from practical experience that nothing it produces should be trusted. But I guess that would take more than 20 minutes of training.
Still waiting patiently to see whether venture capital eventually turns Bluesky to shit despite all the fancy words, or whether it eventually grows up and starts federating with the rest of us.
I'd expect some kind of evidence of their existence to be in view somewhere in a news story worth paying any attention to. If it turns out to be real I'm sure we'll hear all about it.
Their UK traffic was down by only 77%? Should've been 100% to begin with.
I guess it's for the best that they're going after the porn sites first with the "age verification" scam. It's typically easy for their users to go somewhere else, and it gives a lot of people some first-hand experience of how jarringly intrusive and unsafe it is when a web site asks for official ID or biometric data.
"AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can't do your job."
The typical return on investment for spending on AI is zero.